A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar. From LearnThat.org. [Lao Tzu (c.604-531 B.C.), Chinese philosopher and mystic, founder of Taoism.]
I use the term scholar in the literal sense of student and do not claim expert status. From Wordnik.com. [Cracking the Shakespeare Code - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference
As for Gates qualifying for the title scholar, I will let his own actions speak for themselves. From Wordnik.com. [Charges against Gates to be dropped] Reference
The word scholar connotes heady intellectuals, buried in books and theories -- but what these kids are really learning is how to act. From Wordnik.com. [Jeffrey Abelson: Bezos Scholars Program -- Incubating Big Ideas and Model Citizens -- One High School at a Time] Reference
This kind of scholar is more like an architect — he designs the overall project, but an army of helpers puts together the final project. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Craftsmen, Bureaucrats & Plagiarists:] Reference
THE house of the lonely scholar is in the winding lane. From Wordnik.com. [Fir-Flower Tablets: Poems Translated From the Chinese] Reference
Stephen, the teacher and literary scholar, is philosophical. From Wordnik.com. ['Ulysses' in Chinese] Reference
The history of the genre was first documented in Italian scholar. From Wordnik.com. [Jahsonic] Reference
For the name scholar there is no such creature as a "pedestrian" or. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IV No 2] Reference
The scholar is not necessarily a learned man, but he is a wise man. From Wordnik.com. [I, Pirate, Part IV …] Reference
President Obama is truly a gentleman and a scholar from the heavens. From Wordnik.com. [Obama keeps Dean] Reference
Note 1: The word "China" or "Chinese" used by scholar is very tricky. From Wordnik.com. [Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)] Reference
Dr. Gyi's brilliance as a martial art innovator and scholar is above approach. From Wordnik.com. [Dr Gyi] Reference
Update: The resident TLC Latin scholar, Michael, has the translation in the Barks. From Wordnik.com. [October 2004] Reference
A scholar is overflowing with humour and invention – perhaps addicted to wine, but what of that?. From Wordnik.com. [Monday or Tuesday] Reference
We have drawn the line between the generalist and the specialist too boldly; the ideal scholar is both. From Wordnik.com. [English as a Field] Reference
Mr. Irons, a neighbour of theirs, was a good Latin scholar; it was arranged that I should study under him. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of My Life] Reference
As University of Wisconsin scholar Marc Galanter puts it, “The trial as an institution is fading away.”. From Wordnik.com. [Print - Jury Service is Good for You | PopPolitics.com] Reference
The fact that he claims to be a constitutional scholar is a joke also but I thought that goes without saying. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » ‘Impeach Obama’ Advocate At CPAC Concedes Movement Is Based Largely On ‘Policy Differences’] Reference
His translation of the Satires of Horace made him known as a scholar, but his liberality of view led to his suspension. From Wordnik.com. [A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature] Reference
But the scholar is rather the people, the pupils of the priests "in doing this," namely, forming unions with foreign wives. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
One of the functions of the scholar is to qualify words, to fill out descriptions; and this often means to debunk popular beliefs. From Wordnik.com. [Liberal Education for a Free Society] Reference
Bronwen is Monroe College's Gertrude Stein scholar and as territorial as they come on the topic of the eccentric expatriate writer. From Wordnik.com. [Five-fingered Prozac] Reference
One serious drawback to being a textual scholar is that I find it hard to see text anywhere without some part of my mind analyzing it. From Wordnik.com. [Paraguay es en Sudamerica] Reference
Society, and it is said to have been quoted, as authentic history, by a certain German scholar named Goeller, in a note on a passage in. From Wordnik.com. [Brief History of English and American Literature] Reference
It wasn't the police that acted stupidly, it was the "scholar" - where is the common sense?. From Wordnik.com. [Obama: Police 'acted stupidly' in arresting Harvard scholar] Reference
DF awakes, dewy with frost, in the shadow of the great coliseum where the "scholar" - athletes of USC do battle. From Wordnik.com. [Losanjealous] Reference
How apt a scholar is our good friend Dustycoat, in this new school!. From Wordnik.com. [Ten Nights in a Bar Room] Reference
Next up for the scholar is a book called "A Nation Building People.". From Wordnik.com. [JSOnline.com] Reference
In this distribution of functions the scholar is the delegated intellect. From Wordnik.com. [Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson] Reference
But if this was material for Adam's book, introducing him as a scholar was a risk. From Wordnik.com. [Prehistoric History] Reference
And he's known to be an avid outdoorsman and quite a scholar is our understanding. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 2, 2005] Reference
LAWRENCE WILL GO TO OXFORD and become a real scholar, which is a great thing and a noble. From Wordnik.com. [Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3] Reference
He might justly be called a scholar; at the same time he was a man of boundless activity. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux] Reference
At the same time taming any pretentions I might harbour as to being one, (scholar, that is). From Wordnik.com. [The Brussels Journal - The Voice of Conservatism in Europe] Reference
As for the first, it is a little oval poem, and may not improperly be called a scholar's egg. From Wordnik.com. [Essays and Tales] Reference
Colleagues call the scholar's arrest last Thursday afternoon a clear case of racial profiling. From Wordnik.com. [Black America Web] Reference
The scholar is the man of the ages, but he must also wish, with other men, to stand well with his contemporaries. From Wordnik.com. [Representative Men] Reference
In one instance, recalls a scholar who witnessed it, Zhu sent staffers to hunt down an official who failed to appear at a meeting. From Wordnik.com. [Taking Power] Reference
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